Journey to Gold Mountain: The Chinese in Nineteenth-Century America by Ronald Takaki

Journey to Gold Mountain: The Chinese in Nineteenth-Century America

The Asian American Experience

Ronald Takaki with Rebecca Stefoff (Contributor)

126 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative reflective slow-paced
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The first Asian group to enter the United states, the Chines began to arrive after the discovery of gold in California in 1848. Like other Forty-Niners, they came to mine the hills of the land they called Gam Saan, 'Gold Mountain.' As the gold fie...

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